Re: Thickness Isn't Thickness
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- Subject: [mg29921] Re: Thickness Isn't Thickness
- From: "OBrien-Malone" <dot at dot.dot>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 03:56:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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I don't think Mathematica allows anything similar. I *always* end up editing the Mathematica produced EPS output with Illustrator before using the pictures in publications. I have found it too cumbersome to do anything else, despite the annoyances of sometimes editing many similar graphs in a similar way. -- Cheers Mark R Diamond -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark R Diamond Vision Research Laboratory Department of Psychology The University of Western Australia SPAM AVIODING EMAIL: ... at psy dot edu dot au, address to markd Disclaimers: The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and are not intended to reflect on any official positon held by The University of Western Australia generally, the Department of Psychology specifically, or any other individual aes wrote in message <9j3agr$iop$1 at smc.vnet.net>... >The Line drawing capability in Illustrator allows you to select between >what are called "butt", "round", or "projecting" caps as "Stroke >attributes" on the ends of lines. > >Does Mathematica allow anything similar? > >(The Mathematica default seems to be the equivalent of "projecting caps", which >make for problems if you're trying to have a thickened line intersect a >thinner line or other geometrical figure at 90 degrees, with the >endpoint of the thicker line located on that figure, as is analytically >convenient. The end of the thick line then project through the thinner >line, which is not wanted.) > >(And one could argue that "Thickness", taken literally, should increase >the thickness but NOT the length of a line, as Mathematica unfortunately >does.) >